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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Turkey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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